Astronomy & Astrophysics 101: Circumstellar Disc

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Circumstellar discs are discs of dust, gas, asteroids and other objects that rotate around a star. Circumstellar discs around newly formed stars are known as protoplanetary discs.

Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, ESA, and D. Apai and G. Schneider (University of Arizona)